SubSonic 6.1.1 Podcast Name cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in SubSonic 6.1.1. This affects an unknown function of the component Podcast. The manipulation of the argument Name as part of Parameter leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2017-9414. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in SubSonic 6.1.1. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Podcast. The manipulation of the argument name as part of a Parameter leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Subscribe to Podcast feature in Subsonic 6.1.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or possibly have unspecified other impact via the name parameter to playerSettings.view.

The bug was discovered 06/04/2017. The weakness was published 02/05/2018 as EDB-ID 42120 as not defined exploit (Exploit-DB). It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-9414 since 06/03/2017. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 246 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (42120). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• SubSonic

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• 6.1.1

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